Acts 2:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Seeing it is but the third hour of the day.— Such of the Jews as shamefullyimitatedtheirHeathenneighbours,anddranktoolargelyatthefestival,did not use to take such criminal liberties till after the sacrifices were offered, and the oblations made; but the morning sacrifices had not been now offered, to which, as some think, St. Peter might allude. Josephus tells us, that, on the feast days, the Jews seldom ate or drank till noon; which, if true, would render the calumny here referred to the more incredible.

Acts 2:15

15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.